May 7, 2025
On the night of May 7, Ukrainian drones attacked two military airfields in Russia. The airfields hit were Shaikovka in the Kaluga Region and Kubinka in the Moscow Region, Astra reports, citing data from NASA’s fire monitoring satellites. The attack on Kubinka was confirmed by Fighterbomber, a Z-channel specializing in military aviation. It noted that the Russian Knights and Swifts aerobatic teams, which are participating in the Victory Parade on May 9, are based at the airfield near Moscow.
“They are trying to ruin our parade and are hitting the locations of personnel and equipment,” Fighterbomber wrote. At the same time, he noted that this strike “will not affect the air part of the show in any way.”
Last night, Ukrainian drones also attacked Tula and Saransk, where military factories came under attack. In Tula, the attack may have targeted JSC Instrument Design Bureau, one of the largest enterprises in the Russian defense industry, which develops high-precision guided weapons for the ground forces, the Navy, and the Aerospace Forces. In Saransk, according to Astra, a fire broke out after the drone’s arrival on the territory of the Optofolokone Systems enterprise, the first and only plant in Russia producing optical fiber.
Advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko previously noted that this enterprise produces fiber optic cables that are used to control drones during the war against Ukraine. The second fire occurred several kilometers from the first, presumably at the Saranskkabel machine-building enterprise. There was no official confirmation of this information.
The Russian Defense Ministry has not provided data on the number of drones intercepted and shot down over the past night. The day before, on May 6, almost two hundred drones were shot down over Russian territory, according to the military department’s report. Because of this, at least 14 airports were closed during the day (some of them several times): Moscow’s Vnukovo, Domodedovo, Zhukovsky and Sheremetyevo, in Kaluga, Volgograd, Saratov, Samara, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslavl, Sochi, Kazan and Nizhnekamsk. In connection with this, chaos broke out in many airports in Central Russia on May 6 and 7. Passengers of cancelled or delayed flights spend hours sitting in airport buildings, many of which were overcrowded. People often complain about the lack of assistance from airlines, which do not provide food, drink or accommodation to victims.
So, maybe there will be a few planes less at the stupid parade?
“Passengers of cancelled or delayed flights spend hours sitting in airport buildings, many of which were overcrowded. People often complain about the lack of assistance from airlines, which do not provide food, drink or accommodation to victims.”
Cry me a river. Too bad the airport didn’t get levelled.